Billie Holiday Four Classic Albums...plus (2-CD)

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Billie Holiday: Four Classic Albums...plus (2-CD)

The four classic albums of the title are "Body and Soul" from January 1957, 'Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic' from 1945/6, and 'Music for Torching' and 'Velvet Mood' from August 1955, and the plus is five of the six tracks from 'Billie Holiday at Newport' (July 1957) and "Fine and Mellow" from 'The Sound of Jazz'. To nitpick for a moment, I'd have preferred the last track to have been omitted in favour of the missing Newport number.
These recordings come from the latter part of her career, when her addictions were beginning to take their toll, but at her best she still sounded head and shoulders above anyone else. Billie reprises some of her earlier hits for the Newport concert, with a trio accompaniment, and her vocal deterioration is in evidence. Norman Granz' ingenuous sleeve note notwithstanding, the JATP album was a composite from her three appearances at the Philharmonic, and displays evidence of an unsatisfactory recording balance.
Fortunately the majority of the tracks are studio recordings, and offer stellar accompaniments, including Harry 'Sweets' Edison on trumpet, Benny Carter on alto sax, Jimmy Rowles on piano, and Barney Kessel on guitar. So although this is a bit of a mixed bag it still offers plenty of delights.

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Interpret: Billie Holiday
Album titlle: Four Classic Albums...plus (2-CD)
Label AVID
Genre Jazz
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5022810198925
weight in Kg 0.12

Holiday, Billie - Four Classic Albums...plus (2-CD) CD 1
01	Body and soul	Billie Holiday
02	They can't take that away from me	Billie Holiday
03	Darn that dream	Billie Holiday
04	Let's call the whole thing off	Billie Holiday
05	Comes love	Billie Holiday
06	Gee, baby, ain't I good to you	Billie Holiday
07	Embraceable you	Billie Holiday
08	Moonlight in Vermont	Billie Holiday
09	Willow weep for me	Billie Holiday
10	My man	Billie Holiday
11	Lover, come back to me	Billie Holiday
12	Lady sings the blues	Billie Holiday
13	What a little moonlight can do	Billie Holiday
14	Body and soul	Billie Holiday
15	Strange fruit	Billie Holiday
16	Trav'lin' Light	Billie Holiday
17	He's funny that way	Billie Holiday
18	The man I love	Billie Holiday
19	Gee, baby, ain't I good to you	Billie Holiday
20	All of me	Billie Holiday
21	Billie's blues	Billie Holiday

Holiday, Billie - Four Classic Albums...plus (2-CD) CD 2
01	It had to be you	Billie Holiday
02	Come rain or come shine	Billie Holiday
03	I don't want to cry anymore	Billie Holiday
04	I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you	Billie Holiday
05	A fine romance	Billie Holiday
06	Gone with the wind	Billie Holiday
07	I get a kick out of you	Billie Holiday
08	Isn't this a lovely day	Billie Holiday
09	Prelude to a kiss	Billie Holiday
10	When your lover has gone	Billie Holiday
11	Please don't talk about me when I'm gone	Billie Holiday
12	Nice work if you can get it	Billie Holiday
13	I've got a right to sing the blues	Billie Holiday
14	What's new	Billie Holiday
15	I hadn't anyone till you	Billie Holiday
16	Everything I have is yours	Billie Holiday
17	Fine and mellow	Billie Holiday